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dark acacia · 03-12-2016, 11:58 PM

^I think, for RP purposes, that the "introduce" command is a lot worse than the "where" command.

At least "where" lets you find people for RP. "Introduce" is either too easily abused, or encourages lousy RP--either you get the conversation where someone randomly comes up to you and introduces him or herself for no reason, or you get people who will introduce you to EVERYONE whether you want them to or not. It's even worse if "introduce" puts you in the who list of everyone who knows your name. If you're the local evil guy or unfortunate newbie RP pariah, your presence online is suddenly made known to everyone who ever happened to share a room with you for any length of time.

03-12-2016, 11:58 PM	#3
dark acacia Banned Join Date: Dec 2012 Posts: 263	Re: Roleplaying Muds with Compact Playerbases ^I think, for RP purposes, that the "introduce" command is a lot worse than the "where" command. At least "where" lets you find people for RP. "Introduce" is either too easily abused, or encourages lousy RP--either you get the conversation where someone randomly comes up to you and introduces him or herself for no reason, or you get people who will introduce you to EVERYONE whether you want them to or not. It's even worse if "introduce" puts you in the who list of everyone who knows your name. If you're the local evil guy or unfortunate newbie RP pariah, your presence online is suddenly made known to everyone who ever happened to share a room with you for any length of time.